hmm

Hello, 4am, it's been a while since we hooked up!

Actually, I shouldn't be surprised, this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the jetlag I had upon arriving in Prague; then I was exhausted at 8pm and chirpy at 4am. Nice to see that my insomnia obeys the laws of...whatever the hell this is. Physics? Circadian rhythms? Some beauteous novel admixture of the two?

Anyway, I am watching episodes of Friends and trying to kill my brainwaves.

all right then

I have finally identified the two major obstacles standing between me and the Merlin fic I'm currently trying to write:

1) It needs -- not a PLOT, per se, I know the basic outline, but plot details. Technicalities and twists. And it's not the kind of story where the plot can flow organically if you know the characters back-to-front, even though that will be useful. Bringing us to the fact that:

2) It's essentially an ensemble piece, even though I'm only using one POV character, and I don't know this fic's versions of the characters well enough yet. And even though I think character-simming is going to be the best way to fix this, I don't need them to just talk to me, I really need them to talk to each other, and that means simming five-sometimes-six people at once. Which, you know, I only sim VERY OCCASIONALLY as it is, and this is going to take up a lot of brainspace.

But I think it'll be worth it, if I can get everything to work.

Yeah, I'm being deliberately vague; I harbour fond hope of keeping this one a surprise, so Claira & Inept are my Secret-Keepers and the rest of you will just have to put up with a lot of ambiguously worded hair-pulling.

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Entirely unrelated to the above, does anyone know what the hiphoppy song that samples Dragostea Din Tei currently floating around the radiowaves is? And, um, where I could acquire a copy?

Problem solved!